Carl von Clausewitz

“I Am Not a Crook” Political leaders of the United States were once idolized. However, the publishing of the Pentagon Papers and the Vietnam War made the public wary of their government’s internal motives. In 1972, five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters, who were linked to President Richard M. Nixon. The public’s opinion of a corrupt government was solidified. Politics and journalism changed forever. The Watergate Scandal led to government reform,…

Dreams have always been a curiosity. How they seem to reflect reality at times but bring us to other worlds at other times is confounding to us. Over the years there have been many theories about dreams and even more questions. What are dreams? How are they formed? How does dreaming affect us? Do our dreams have meaning? Does reality, stress, and trauma factor into our dreams? The answers to these are complicated and still mostly undiscovered, but this essay will cover some of what has been…

Predecessor to the 80’s cult classic, The Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal was legendary puppeteer Jim Henson’s first attempt at creating a fantasy motion picture filmed entirely with intricate animatronics and puppets. The film is complete with heroes, villains and the other main elements of fantastical narratives as described by Russian scholar and folklorist Vladimir Propp in his breakthrough work, Morphology of the Folktale, which states that there is a sequence of 31 functions — certain actions…

The screenplay, written by William Goldman based on the book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, gives the audience a first-hand account of their investigation. Furthermore, the style of the filmmaking is drastically different from Pakula’s The Parallax View, the scenery and direction are realistic and documentary-like…

Sigmund Freud developed a model of the mind in which he described the aspects of the mind’s structure and function. Freud uses an example of an iceberg to correlate with the levels of the mind. On the surface is consciousness or the tip of the iceberg. This consists of thoughts and memories that are derived from meaningful thinking and conscious understanding. Below the surface and arguably the most significant region is the unconscious. This contains the processes that are thought to be the…

Introduction This assignment is written about Sigmund Freud's psychosexual theory of development and Erik Erikson's psychosocial theory of development. They both believed that personality develops in a series of predetermined stages but their theories have different explanations. Outline of Freud's psychosexual theory of development According to Freud the sexual life begins with the birth and the sexual life comprises the function of obtaining pleasure from areas of the body. In his theory of…

Carl Jung, the pioneer of analytical psychology, explains complex, a core pattern of emotions, and perceptions in the personal unconscious organized around a common theme (Shultz and Shultz, 2009). Unlike what Carl Jung believed, collective unconscious might also create complexes, such as phobia, the irrational fear, through inheriting instinct. Anyhow, once the complex is fixed, a person starts to have a certain paradigm about the certain theme. Therefore, complexes could be interpreted as a…

it gained wider recognition owing to Sigmund Freud’s work. In his work Freud described narcissism as a sexual perversion, and defined it as “the attitude of a person who treats his own body in the way in which the body of the sexual object is ordinarily treated – who looks at it, strokes it, fondles it till he obtains complete satisfaction from these activities.” (Freud, 1914, p.73) Narcissism is defined by the American Psychiatric Association (2013) as a personality disorder, which includes “a…

By definition, lucid dreaming is being aware of dreaming while dreaming. Perhaps a double entendre but, perhaps, this closely explains the meaning without confusion. Coined long ago, the word "lucid" is used in the sense of mental clarity. Almost anyone, with knowledge obtained by doing, can live through lucid dreams. Not in any way dream control, lucid dreams have little or no control on dreaming. Nevertheless, lucidity in a dream will probably improve the ability to methodically affect the…

Sigmund Freud is considered the father of psychiatry. Among his many achievements, it can be said that the most far-reaching character scheme in psychology is the Freudian theory of personality. The focus has been on many additions, modifications and different interpretations given their basic points. Despite many reincarnations, Freud's critique of many theory (for example, the theory of sexual bias) remains the center of heated debates in their relevance today. Make it easy and explain…